One of the blighted apartments the city will tear down with the help of a $45,000 state grant sits boarded up on North 12th Avenue.

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Amanda Seitz
Wausau Daily Herald

Apartment complexes with boarded up windows, overgrown weeds and mold-infested walls soon will no longer sit on North 12th Avenue in Wausau.

The city was given $45,000 in strategic blight elimination funds to tear down three of four apartment buildings on 12th Avenue from the Wisconsin Department of Justice and Department of Financial Institutions, the Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority announced Thursday. In August of this year, Wausau was given $53,000 to tear down three other blighted homes through the same program.